Lloyd's Building is a prominent five-storey 19th century building located on Sir Baron Jayatilaka Mawatha (formerly Prince Street), Colombo Fort. The...
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The Old Parliament Building, is the building that houses the Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka. Situated in the Colombo fort area facing the sea, it...
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Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) is a ship building company in Sri Lanka and it is based in Colombo. It has built both military and civilian vessels for both...
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romanized: Ulaka Varttaka Maiyam) is a 152-metre-tall (499 ft) twin building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 39-storey towers are built over a 4-storey retail...
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Fort (Colombo) (Sinhala: කොටුව; Tamil: கோட்டை) is the central business district of Colombo in Sri Lanka. It is the financial district of Colombo and the...
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Cargills (Ceylon) (category Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange)
Cargills (Ceylon) PLC is a Sri Lankan consumer company listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. It primarily operates in the Modern Retail (supermarkets)...
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workplace of the President of Sri Lanka, located at Janadhipathi Mawatha, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 1804 it had been the residence of British Governors and...
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The Old Colombo Dutch Hospital (known as The Dutch Hospital) is considered to be the oldest building in the Colombo Fort area dating back to the Dutch...
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Grand Oriental Hotel (category Hotels in Colombo)
Taprobane Hotel) is a 3 star heritage hotel, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The original building on the site was a simple, single-storey structure with...
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Old Colombo Lighthouse or Colombo Fort Clock Tower is a clock tower and was a lighthouse in Colombo. The lighthouse is no longer operational, but the...
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The Kingsbury (category Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange)
Hotel Colombo and the Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel, is a nine-story hotel located at 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka...
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landmark buildings in Colombo, including the National Museum of Colombo, Colombo Fort Clock Tower, former Colombo Town Hall, Galle Face Hotel and Colombo Customs...
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College is a girls' school in Sri Lanka, situated in Moratuwa, a suburb of Colombo. Princess of Wales' College was founded in 1876 by Sir Charles Henry de...
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Secretariat Building therefore it is still officially called The Secretariat. It is situated in the Colombo fort precinct next to the old Parliament Building, which...
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Sambodhi Chaithya (category Buddhist temples in Colombo)
Buddhist shrine, built with reinforced concrete. The stupa is located in Colombo Harbour, Sri Lanka. It was designed by renowned Sri Lankan engineer A....
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Lecture Hall, St. Andrew's Church (1906), Wesley College (1907) and Lloyd's Building (1908). On 7 June 1909 he was admitted as a fellow of the Royal Institute...
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is located in Colombo Fort in close proximity to the President's House, and it was known as the Senate Building until 1972. The building was built during...
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approximately 1666, ten years after the capture of Colombo by the Dutch they converted the building into the official residence for the Governor, with...
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from 1919 was Lloyd Triestino. Lloyd ships and buildings The Austrian Lloyd Trieste Palazzo in the early 1900s Oil painting of Lloyd's SS Koerber by Miceu...
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SLNS Parakrama (category Government buildings in Colombo)
Navy shore establishment sited on Flagstaff Street in Colombo, in close proximity to the Colombo Lighthouse. It functions as the naval headquarters of...
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seven-nation Commonwealth Consultative Committee meets to discuss the Colombo Plan for south and south-east Asia. Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya...
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Gaffoor Building is a prominent four-storey wedge-shaped building located on the corner Sir Baron Jayatilaka Mawatha and Leyden Bastian Street, Colombo Fort...
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Seq.№A44. Phipps (1840), p. 140. Lloyd's List №5197. Hackman (2001), p. 247. Lloyd's List, various issues. Lloyd's List №5394. Asiatic Journal, (1819)...
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Aitken Spence (category Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange)
as the sole agent of Lloyd's of London in Ceylon. In order to service the agency for the Lloyd's of London for the Port of Colombo, Clark Spence & Co....
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in 1676, which is the only surviving Dutch period building within the Colombo Port area. The building has been refurbished and renovated to accommodate...
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"incorporated" and may not be incorporated: the US Supreme Court has held in Roby v Lloyd's that insurance syndicates have no separate existence. Today, insurance...
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Charles Henry de Soysa (category Alumni of Royal College, Colombo)
constructed commercial buildings at Galle Face, Colpetty, Fort and Pettah and the De Soysa building in Slave Island, Colombo. The residential property...
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April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player (d. 2012) April 11 Emilio Colombo, 40th prime minister of Italy (d. 2013) Peter O'Donnell, British author...
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Lighthouse was deactivated when its light became obscured by nearby buildings as part of the Colombo Harbor Expansion project. It was opened by Rt Hon D. S. Senanayake...
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SS Westernland (section Building)
Engineering Works. Retrieved 4 March 2021. "Steamers & Motorships". Lloyd's Register (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1930. Retrieved 4 March 2021 – via Southampton City...
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